No Way Out, No Way In: Irregular migrant children and families in the UK.
A new report published by the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford.
[Download Full Report]
(Source: Irregular Voices blog).

World Map: Parties to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (UNHCR, as of 1 May 2012) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog).

"This article examines academic achievements of immigrant youths in four new immigration countries: Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The analysis based on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) of 2009 and 2012 reveals large educational achievement gaps between immigrant children and natives in all four south European countries. The […]

"Immigrant female and also male workers are increasingly involved in the supply of care services in the countries of the Global North, and they are especially so in elderly care. In the countries of southern Europe, but to an increasing extent also in countries like Germany and Austria, the care work of immigrants is embedded in a specific care regime. […]

"What influences the decisions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to return home after prolonged displacement? This article investigates the attitudes of victims of forced migration by analysing survey data on Kurdish displaced persons and returnees in Turkey. In an attempt to give a voice to displaced persons, we survey the conditions under which I […]

"This review article compares Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen's analysis in Access to Asylum, with the outcomes of three recent landmark decisions of the European Court of Human Rights: Hirsi Jamaa, Al Skeini and Al Jedda. The central question of Gammeltoft-Hansen’s book is whether new practices of states in the field of immigration control—in particular […]

"Harsh, Unjust, Unnecessary' : Adult Dependant Relative Report, is a new report by JCWI and BritCits, launched on 9 July 2014, the second anniversary of the family migration rules. The new Adult Dependent Relative Rules (‘ADR Rules’) came into force in July 2012 as part of the changes to Family Migration rules. The ADR Rules provide for elderly par […]

"Just a quick one to flag up a new report by Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration John Vine into the European Casework Directorate at the Home Office. The report is generally quite positive but the emphasis of the press release, introductory text and subsequent press reports is on potentially abuse of EU rights" Tags: reports […]

"This study seeks to understand the composition, use and cultural orientation of mental health evidence within the UK’s refugee status determination (RSD) process, focusing specifically on mental health evidence provided in the form of a medico-legal report (MLR). By exploring those themes, this paper also strives to provide insight into what constitute […]

"In the words of UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, we face ‘the most serious refugee crisis for 20 years’. Recent displacement from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan, and Somalia has increased the number of refugees in the world to 15.4 million. Significantly, some 10.2 million of these people are in protracted refugee situations. […]

"The Migration Advisory Committee has today released a detailed examination of migrants in low-skilled jobs in the UK and their wider impacts. In 2013 there were 2.1 million foreign born workers in low-skilled jobs in the UK, one million of whom had come to the UK since 2004. Many of the findings of the MAC research echo those of prior investigations in […]

"The European Migration Network (EMN), which works under the aegis of the Home Affairs Directorate of the European Commission, has published a study entitled Migrant access to social security and healthcare:policies and practice . The study notes that "Social security systems, including access to healthcare, constitute one of the most powerful tool […]

"In 2010 the British government announced that the outrage of child detention for immigration purposes was to end. Simultaneously, however, it commissioned the opening of a new family detention centre, CEDARS, which was to be run under novel governance arrangements by the Home Office, private security company G4S and the children’s charity Barnardo’s. […]

*Apologies for cross-posting*CMRB is pleased to announce the following seminar:'Re-Living the Dream? Reinventing East London for the Post-Olympic Legacy' Prof. Phil CohenThis seminar will take place 4-6pm on Monday 30th March 2015 in US 2.38, University Square Stratford, University of East London, 1 Salway Road, London E15 1NF, http://www.universit […]

*Apologies for cross-posting*CMRB is pleased to announce the following seminar:Secessionism, Separatism and Survivalism in America: Racism and White Supremacy in Times of Perceived Crisis, Dr. Aaron Winter (UEL)This seminar will take place 4-6pm, Monday 2nd March 2014 in EB G.06, Docklands Campus, UEL, E16 2RDhttp://www.uel.ac.uk/about/campuses/docklands/The […]

*Apologies for cross-posting*CMRB is pleased to announce as part of its Borders and Bordering Seminar Series:'Borders, Boundaries and Beyond: A Feminist Exploration of the Making of Borders, Boundaries and Identities in Post-colonial Bangladesh', Rumana Hashem (University of East London) and Zobaida Nasreen (Durham University)This seminar will take […]

*Apologies for cross-posting*Dear all,Please find attached details for 'Feminism & the "S-word"', taking place at City University on 4th March 2015, 5-7pm.CMRB co-director Nira Yuval-Davis will be speaking alongside Deborah Grayson, Mandy Merck and Hilary Wainwright.BestJamie

"Theresa May has many of the assets befitting the first serious female candidate for the Tory leadership since Margaret Thatcher. She is tough as old boots, disguised in fetching kitten heels. She has a classless, commonsensical manner — the nearest thing we have to Angela Merkel. If May is “on manoeuvres” to replace David Cameron in the event of a defe […]

"Sir James Dyson, the billionaire entrepreneur behind the bagless vacuum cleaner, is the latest voice to criticise Home Secretary Theresa May's plan to kick out foreign students as soon as they've graduated. "Theresa May… wants to exile foreign students upon qualification from British universities," he wrote. "Train 'em up. […]

"People born in India have overtaken the Irish to become the largest immigrant group in the UK. According to latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this week, the number of India-born migrants now living permanently in the UK has risen by 232,000 since 2004 to total 734,000 in 2013." Tags: news […]

"Police in Britain arrested six times more people linked to the conflict in Syria under terrorism legislation last year than in 2013. The total arrests for the whole of 2014 stood at 165 compared to 25 for 2013. Officials estimate that more than 500 Britons have travelled to fight with Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq and fear that some could r […]

"LEADING MP Keith Vaz has branded new government policy to centralise visa hubs in India and Bangladesh to New Delhi as “ludicrous” and “a slap in the face” for the community. Vaz, who is the chair of the Home Office Select Committee, was officially told by the government last week about the downsizing of a crucial visa hub in Mumbai and how visa applic […]

"The former head of Britain’s intelligence agency MI5, Lord Evans, has added his voice to demands for a clampdown on the Internet and e-communications in the wake of the terror assaults on the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris and a Jewish supermarket, in which 17 people were killed." Tags: news […]

"Description: On 11 December 2014, Iva Petkovic, the Program Coordinator from the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization sat down with Amnesty International Chile Executive Director Ana Piquer to discuss the human rights situation of the Mapuche indigenous group in Chile, focusing in particular on the right to consultation and the right to prote […]

"The Mayor Paris has said she is planning to sue Fox News for what she claimed were inaccurate reports about alleged Muslim “no-go areas” in the city. Anne Hidalgo claimed the people of Paris had been insulted and the city’s image had been damaged. “When we're insulted, and when we've had an image, then I think we'll have to sue, I think […]

"Thousands of people joined the funeral procession for 25-year-old Hezbollah operative Jihad Moughniyah on Monday as his coffin, draped in the party’s flag, was carried through the southern suburbs of Beirut. Members of the crowd sang the praises of the operative, whom they consider to have died as a martyr in the Israel helicopter strike on Sunday afte […]

"While the fear of religious extremists has reached a new high since the terrorist attacks in Paris last week, you might be surprised to learn how many instances of terrorism in the EU over the past five years were actually religiously motivated. According to statistics from Europol, less than two per cent of all recorded acts of terror were perpetrated […]